A better distinction between a plot driven narrative and character driven narrative.

I often see posts about whether to approach their novel from a plot driven perspective or character driven perspective, this type of thinking gets shot down with 'all stories are plot driven, all plots are character driven, you need both,' and while I don't disagree, I feel this misses the point. It's true that if you have bland, boring characters, you can't excuse it with 'well it's plot driven,' but according to this logic, there is no distinction between a plot driven story and a character driven story, and I definitely feel that isn't true. All good plot driven stories need plot development and character development, but a character driven story is when the character development takes such a priority it starts to interfere with plot development. Books such as Scarlet Letter or Catcher in the Rye fill this category. They are considered classics but the plots of these books are minimal, because the entire story is just character development.

I know everyone has a different way of giving advice on this, but my way of putting it is this; Story driven is where you can switch out the characters, and the story -along with the lesson or moral- remains the same. Of course this may not be true in…

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